The Mumbai Indians dominated the IPL for the majority of the competition’s third season, but finished 22 runs short of winning the final against the Chennai Super Kings yesterday.
After setting a testing 169-run target for Mumbai, Chennai applied the squeeze on the opposition batsmen as they struggled to cap what had been a dominant season in front of their home crowd in the one match that really counted.
And as the pundits sit down to contemplate where it all went wrong for Mumbai, they will surely keep arriving back at one question: why wasn’t Kieron Pollard sent in to bat while there was still a reasonable hope of salvaging the match?
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